Well we all wanted some rain for the gardens but definitely not for the gazebos. Laura and Rob were a definite asset as we were tasked with shifting some gazebos down onto Riverside Park. A very organised bunch of volunteers we were helped by good pre-planning from the TriFest team. We were prepared for some rain but perhaps not the deluge which started the festival off in true British style! Luckily we were able to enjoy the good music from lots of local musicians and the sun came out and treated everyone to a beautiful afternoon and evening. Rob and Steph were able to pop back later for the closing down session and another good workout getting all the packed gazebos up the slope and into the garage.

We helped Thomas from Southampton City Farm move a bunch of materials from B&Q out of the parking lot - they'll be soon used to build a chicken coop on the farm grounds. We did this in a totally not competitive way.

We were also by no means influenced by the promise of feeding the animals and running with ponies if we finished early.

Having finished the task in about 30 minutes, we spent the rest of the time playing with the animals and helping the farm put them to sleep. We got to run through the school's fields with Salt & Pepper, the ponies, which were surprisingly quick.

Some of the team arrived early to do some hill reps ... not sure how many they did, but its a steep hill so hats off to them!

This evenings task was to weed Bed 6 and the adjacent paths and another path which was almost hidden under long grass and comfrey.

Everything which wasn't a crop had to go... except for the Sunflower!!!! Thanks to Abby the Sunflower survived 😊

We were a triumphant team of 10 tonight and completed the task in the hour!

We finished the evening with cake provided by Ellie to remember her Gran, who would have had her 93rd birthday today.

We were on a slug hunting mission... the pesky slugs are eating the crops so GG to the rescue!

We met Liz who armed us with knives, buckets, gloves and head torches and then we started to slug hunt!

edit... Laura arrived with a slug so she was already well away 😂

Tricky to find in the dry conditions but as it got darker they started to appear... and after 2 hours of hunting we had found over 300 slugs!!!!

It was a fun evening with funny sounds of squeals from close slug encounters...slimy little suckers.

The ducks will have a lovely breakfast!🦆

Super chuffed to see our two newest members Steve and Laura. You doubled our efforts this evening, thankyou and thankyou all for staying so late 😊